Strikes With Mystic Might

Your unarmed techniques are infused with otherworldly energies, enabling you to move beyond the merely physical.

Genre themes: mystic monk (fantasy, superhero)

GM intrusions: Powerful strikes resonate, drawing unwanted attention or breaking nearby objects.

Mystic Source

A character who Strikes With Mystic Might relies on an otherworldly, magical source for their power, such as elemental fire, shadow, thorn, or something more esoteric like "The Six Lamps of the West"—work with your GM to flesh out the details. Whatever you choose is probably the same mystic power source used for the character's higher-tier abilities as well.

Tier 1

Mystic Hand: You inflict an additional 1 damage with unarmed attacks with your mystic source. Once per round, if you take a wound and are not helpless, you can spend 3 Speed to reduce the wound's severity by one step. Enabler.

No Need for Weapons: Your unarmed attacks (such as punches, kicks, elbows, or knees) inflict an additional 2 damage. Enabler.

Supernatural Leap: When you jump, you move twice as far as normal, either horizontally or vertically. Enabler.

Tier 2

Safe Fall: You ignore one wound from a fall. Enabler.

Surging Hand (2 Speed): You call upon your mystic source and project it at a target within short range, inflicting 4 damage with a successful Speed attack. Action.

Tier 3

Mystic Flurry: You inflict an additional 1 damage with unarmed attacks with your mystic source. Enabler.

Perfecting the Body: Your daily kata infuse and protect you, granting you immunity from the effects of fear, mental control, disease, and poison. Enabler.

Tier 4

Mystic Step (4+ Speed): You harness your mystic source to instantly transport yourself to a new location you can see within long range. If you appear within immediate range of a foe, you can make one unarmed attack against them as an extra action. Effort: Reach a location within range you can't see directly because it's blocked by a wall or structure. First action.

Tier 5

Exploding Hand (5 Speed): You call upon your mystic source and project it at a target within long distance and two additional targets within immediate range of the first target. Make separate attacks against each. A successful attack inflicts 4 damage; even on a miss you still inflict 1 damage. Action.

Resonant Palm (7 Speed): You forge a mystic connection with a willing creature you touch or a foe you successfully attack (this attack deals 2 less damage than normal). At any point within the next ten days, you can attempt to affect the target in one of the following ways, no matter how far you are from them.

• Transfer one wound from the creature to yourself. No abilities, effects, or equipment can reduce the severity of this wound, but you can rally or attempt to heal it using normal methods.
• Make an eased unarmed attack against the target or an eased attack against them with one of your abilities, as if they were in range.

This connection breaks once you make this attempt, you force a connection with a different creature, or ten days pass. Last action to initiate; action to heal or attack the creature.

Tier 6

Lethal Strike (6 Speed): With a swift and sudden melee or ranged weapon attack, you strike a foe in a vital spot. If you hit, you inflict an additional 7 damage. Action.

Perfected Form: Your mystic source infuses you until you use a one-hour or longer recovery, granting you 3 points that you can add to any of your Pools, even if that would exceed their normal maximums. The points remain until you spend them or the duration expires. In addition, while the duration lasts, your eyes and hands glow with the power of your mystic source, and you inflict an additional 3 damage with your unarmed attacks. This ability renews after your next one-hour or longer recovery. Last action.